NGC Thumbnails

[Hans]

Agreed, this is something very nice to have. And it is tedious work too.  For
images that don't look too good I expect we'll even get negative remarks, but
that should not inhibit this project. To me having a skimpy image is far better
than no image at all.

Is the idea to have an image library or to dynamically download them on demand ?

-- Hans

Jasem Mutlaq wrote on 20170415:

> I'm attaching a few examples so you can see why we can't use them as is in
> KStars.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > This is something very nice to have!
> >
> > A caveat to consider is the licensing for DSS imagery. They are not
> > available for commercial use, so we must ship this as an add-on through
> > KNewStuff ("Get New Data")
> >
> > Other sources of images are SDSS, the Hubble Legacy Archive (hla.stsci.edu)
> > and the recently released PanStarrs 1 survey. I think the PanStarrs 1
> > survey has a large sky coverage (possibly even all sky -- I haven't
> > checked). SDSS has a somewhat small footprint, and the Hubble only has
> > objects of interest.
> >
> > I didn't quite get what the problem involved is. The DSS is made from
> > digitizing scanned plates mostly from the Palomar Observatory and UKSTU
> > telescope. The result is that many plates have artefacts, and they are
> > completely uncalibrated. Planetary nebulae and bright emission nebulae tend
> > to be overexposed. There is no way around these problems other than going
> > to other surveys.
> >
> > Regards
> > Akarsh
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Jasem Mutlaq